No one speaks about the battle of Doncaster. Everything fell apart and the impossibility of repairing what’s been broken continues to haunt us. Especially after losing Elwyna, everything seems hopeless. Trygve and I prepare for another war that looms on the horizon, spreading throughout Mercia and now Wessex, despite King Edmund’s attempts at peace. A third threat hails from East Anglia, in Wales, where a witch named The Dark One has been spreading chaos. Rumors of her powers have devoured the four kingdoms in fear. When our peace depends on finding the Dark One and bringing her to clear the curse put on King Edmund’s wife by another, we find that more than one thing bonds us all together. Will King Edmund be able to create peace in a land that is destined for massacre? Will the identity of the Dark One finally be revealed?